page_title: Rob Hopkins
section_title: Transition Town Totnes (2005–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Rob Hopkins / Biography / Transition Town Totnes (2005–present)
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context_page_description: Rob Hopkins is an activist and writer on environmental issues, based in Totnes, England. He is best known as the founder and figurehead of the Transition movement, which he initiated in 2005. Hopkins has written four books on environmentalism and activism.
context_section_description: In 2005, Rob and his family moved to Totnes, England, and there co-founded, with Naresh Giangrande, Transition Town Totnes, the first official Transition Town.  The project held its 'Unleashing' event in September 2006.  Many projects then began.  These include Keeping Totnes Warm, Open Eco Homes and the Eco Homes Fair, Transition Homes, Transition Streets (which won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change), the Totnes & District Energy Descent Action Plan (which he co-authored), Food in Community, Grown in Totnes, Incredible Edible Totnes, Nut Tree Planting, Seedy Sisters, Skillshares,  Mentoring & Wellbeing Support, the REconomy Centre, the Totnes Local Economic Blueprint, the Local Entrepreneur Forum, the Totnes Pound, Totnes Transition Film Festival, TTT Film Club, Dr Bike, Caring Town Totnes, and Transition Tours.
  TV presenter Nicholas Crane, in an episode of his series 'Town', visited Totnes and declared "This is the biggest urban brainwave of the century. A visionary, practical blueprint that took root in a town and is circling the globe".  Michael Portillo, in Great British Railway Journeys, visited Totnes and spent a Totnes Pound.  Westlife once appeared on The One Show, showing each other Totnes Pounds.
  Rob Hopkins also presented the Totnes Pound in the documentary film Demain (2015).
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